RING OF FIRE | 3-MINUTE READ How to Watch Saturday's Solar Eclipse BY RAMIN SKIBBA |
On the morning of October 14, an Annular Solar Eclipse will be visible to people in the Americas, creating a fiery halo of light around a darkened sun. |
I, PATCH | 3-MINUTE READ A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years BY LILY HAY NEWMAN |
Dubbed "HTTP/2 Rapid Reset," the flaw requires issuing patches to virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated. |
SCREEN TIME | 9-MINUTE READ US House Republicans Had Their Phones Confiscated to Stop Leaks BY MATT LASLO |
In an attempt to wrest control from raucous far-right hardliners amid the fight for a new House speaker, Republican Party leaders are instituting phone bans to keep backroom deals secret. |
TOXIC STEW | 3-MINUTE READ Rumors of a 'Global Day of Jihad' Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation BY DAVID GILBERT |
The rapid spread of violent videos and photos, combined with a toxic stew of mis- and disinformation, now threatens to spill over into real-world violence. |
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WIRED PODCASTS | 51-MINUTE EPISODE Artificial Intelligence Is Seeping Into All of Your Gadgets |
This week, we discuss the impact generative AI is having on the world of consumer tech, and the various futures that path could lead us to. |
BLACKOUT | 4-MINUTE READ The Annular Solar Eclipse Will Decimate US Solar Energy Output BY GREGORY BARBER |
The annular solar eclipse will render more than a third of US solar energy capacity unavailable at some point tomorrow—enough to power about 20 million homes. Grid operators have backup plans. |
BEAM ME UP | 4-MINUTE READ NASA's Psyche Mission Is Off to Test a Space Laser (for Communications) BY RAMIN SKIBBA |
The Psyche probe is heading to its namesake metal-rich asteroid. Along the way, it will demonstrate a near-infrared laser system to send high-rate data hundreds of millions of miles home. |
PRODUCT REVIEW | 6-MINUTE READ The Pixel Watch 2 Is What Google Should Have Delivered Last Year BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU |
It might not be repairable, but this beautiful smartwatch does pretty much everything I want, and does it well. |
ACCESS TO TOOLS | 5-MINUTE READ The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online BY BOONE ASHWORTH |
The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie Whole Earth publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free. |
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